Royal Queen Special Queen

Switched them from. The 4" pots to the 6" pots. Also did a 60/40 mix this time with the coco and perlite. Going to keep them in this small tent for a few more days and then move them to the main room when the cleaning and "renos" are done.

Well so far this strain is looking better then any of the other ones I currently have going and were also able to escape the wrath of my 2 year old when he got into my tent the other day. I wanted to have them in my main room and transferred into my autopots by now but the grow shop is out of coco tell Wednesday. Ones I get some they well be transferred to the main room. And put under a better light. Well that's all for now, happy growing everyone!!!

So it's moving day for the plants. Guy at the grow shop told me that my root control disc's won't be in tell the 9th. So I moved them too 1 gallon pots on the 2nd. Then he calls me up on the 4th and tells me they are in.... if I had know they were going to be in on the 4th I would have left them in the last pots.... oh well. I'll give then tell the 9th and then repot them. I'm going to be setting the special queen plants under the new Spider-Farmer SE-5000 light. I got it turned down to 60% rite now. Going to keep it at 60% tell flower and then crank her up to 100% and drop it down to about 12" above the plants. Did a bit of fiming yesterday to start the training. Going to be a long grow. Planning close to 6-8 week veg before flower. Happy growing everyone.

Well there in the autopots and everything is running. Had a few issues getting it all set up. First one of my tee connections snapped and then one of my inline filters snapped to. Getting the tee was easy but because I'm still running the older autopots, not the ones with the aqua5 valve, the filter was a bit harder to get. But I was able to get the last 2 from one of the local grow shop. After I got the lines all done set the tank up and opened the valve and watched for small leaks. Found 2, fixed them and now everything is running perfectly. Decreased the light output on the SE-5000 to 60% because my light meter showed a DLI of 56 and I wanted it below 45. Now I feel like the plants are doing a lot better. Well that's all for now. Happy growing everyone!!!

I have to say I am really happy with the quality product by Royal Queen Seeds. Both Special Queen #1 and Northern Lights plants in the main room and the Shogun in my micro by them I am growing look amazing. Been growing really quick and have bounced back from training really nicely. Definitely going to try out a few more strains by then over the next few grows. Humidity and temperature have had a bit of a swing back and forth this last few days. Humidity has been jumping from 60 down to 42 and temperature has been having a few spikes but thankfully the duct system has been helping with that. I did a clean and a some maintenance on my dehumidifier to see if that well help. Hopefully it's not cramping out on me (had it for a few grows) but if it does I'm upgrading to a quest dehumidifier. I had a bit of a swing with my Ph and temperature in my rez. It jumped up to 6.4 so I lowered it down to 5.8. It went back up to 6 but hasn't gone up much past that since then. The temperature in the room drops down to 13c at night and so I have been using a 50w tank heater to keep it warm. Unfortunately a few times it's gotten the tank a lot warming then I'd like (24.5 - 24.9c). So I've had to turn it off during the day and then turn it back on at night. So now it goes back and forth between 20c and 23.5c. So I did a defoliation to start the week, at most I removed about 6-8 leaves per plant, so not much. Next day I FIMed them and then 4 days later decided to top them lol. Still got a lot of work to do. Going to do a bit of LST over the next week and then after Christmas I'm going to set up a SCRog net.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!! We have had some crazy cold weather here the last 4 days and for the first time in 13 years had snow on Christmas day. So with the cold and snow came grow room issues. My grow space is outside and not attached to the house so maintaining a proper temperature and humidity has been a bit on the difficult side. Even with the lights running 24 hours, it's had a few drops down to 19c and the humidity has gone up to 68% a few times. Now luckly I'm still in veg and the humidity isn't a issue yet but the temperature has been making me worried. Going to put togther a heater with its own temperature switch increase it drops below 20c. Did some training over the last week with some LST and FIMing. With the LST every 3nd day I've been adjusting them and pulling the plants back a bit more and more. Since I don't think I'll be able to set up a SCRog net this go around (spent to much for Christmas and wont be able to affordthe PVC tubing) ive got to figure out something else and fast. Plants are getting big and it's going to get hard to bend then properly without braking stuff. Because I was showing some issues with 2 of my plants I started adding a bit of Revive to my res to see if they get better and they have. But because of the cold that's been hitting us my tank has had a hard time staying warm. Even with my 50w tank heater it's been fighting a up hill battle because the area outside the main room where the tank is, has been sitting around 14-17c. So with that the air pump I use to circulate the tank, it is pulling in cold air and thats been fighting the tank heater in getting it up to what I like it at. I tried using my water pump instead of the air pump for circulation and the res went up to 25.6c soooo I would much rather have 19c res then water that could kill my plants. So let's talk about the plants themselves. Both Special Queen plants are doing great but as you can see from the picture, one is doing absolutely amazing. Great growth (understatement) and has bounced back from training like a pro. The other plant is still doing really good when compared to all the other plants in the room but still could be a little bit better. Depending on what I'm going to do for supporting the plants this might be the last week of veg. Well see. Well that's all growmies. Happy growing everyone!!!

Well damn thats a big bush lol. The one next to it looks so tiny but is at par with were my plants usually are at this stage with the type of training I've done lol. If it wasn't for its mass I'd probably still go one more week but because of king Kong over there I'm switching to 12/12 tomorrow lol. Today is the last day of veg and the first day of flower is to come. If it goes a full 8 to 9 weeks I'll be looking at a March harvest. If that's the case I might be able to squeeze in a quick auto flower grow before the family summer vacation lol. The temperature has been getting warmer outside and the night time temperature hasn't been to bad. The humidity has been stay around 50% all week and thats were id like to keep it but we're expecting a lot of rain over the next few weeks so we'll see how well that works. I picked up 2 more temperature hydrometer meters with probes for the room. And with all the fans the air movement in the room has been great. Humidity and temperature is the same in every corner of the 8x9 room. I switched the lights from 24/0 to 18/6 this last week to get them ready for the approaching 12/12 light schedule. And because that is tomorrow I lowered the lights down so that tomorrow I just have to turn the lights up. I also emptied my tank and refilled it with the nutrients for flower so that the treys can empty a bit before I add all the new nutrients. I filled all the trays before I turned it all off so they would have enough for the night. Well that's all for now, happy growing and happy new years!!! Keep it growing!!!

Wow talk about leader of the pack. Not only do both plants look amazing compared to the rest but clearly there is one plant that stands out a bit more then the others lol. 8" taller them the rest and almost twice as wide!!! I can't wait to see what she looks like after this upcoming leaf strip next week. I have to say so far I've been really impressed with not only this SE-5000 light but the Royal Queen Seeds produced. Top notch both of them. Temperature and humidity have been stable for the most part. Was having g issues with my dehumidifier tho for a few days. I believe it was over heating a bit and was auto shutting off. So the my humidity would spike up to 75-80% but luckily it was during lights off and I was home when it happened. After moving a few things around and turning it off for a hour it seems to have corrected itself. Good caz I don't really want to have to buy a new one yet lol. For my nutrients I'm slowly bring it up. By the end of week 2 I should have it closer to 1000 ppm. I also stopped using airstones in my tank because I was having a few issues. Now I'm just using a water pump on a timer. Turns off when lights turn on and the back on a hour before the turn off. I've got most of my fans now running at 100%. Only ones that are still only running at 50% are my two lower section fans. With them set to that I find the temperature and humidity at all 4 corners of the room are close enough that I should have zero issues. Well that's all for now so keep growing everyone!!!

So had a bit of a headache with the dehumidifier this week. Unfortunately it was all user error this time lol. I've found if I turn it off for a bit so it can cool down that it doesn't auto shut off, the only trick is I have to remember to turn it back on.... yea so a few times it got a bit high... like 80% humidity high. Luckily it was when it was lights off and I caught it fast. Going to start looking into another dehumidifier so I don't have to deal with this any more. Added Big Bud Coco to the nutrients today at the very end of the week. I cleaned out all the autopot trays and cleaned then floats a bit. Going to do a major line clean out at the end of this upcoming week don't want to have a tray dry out on me because of a clog. The plants are drinking a insane amount of water rite now. I switched to my 50L tank from my 100L because my water line frozen that goes to my grow room because of how cold it got. So I had to fill up a bucket and hand water my res so to say lol. I've had to refill it every 3nd day if that. I'm pretty sure that one massive Special Queen #1 plants is drinking the most but the others have to be drinking up a lot also. When I did 4 plants in just soil I was having to refill every 6 days. So to have it drain out twice as fast with just one extra plant is just crazy. Did a massive leaf strip and lolipoping on yhe plants. Didn't take off as many leaves as I usually do. Don't want to over stress them. Plan in doing another small strip in week 6 of flower. Well that's all for now. Happy growing everyone!!!!

So plant growth stopped about 2 days ago. None of the plants have grown more then 3" since last week. The buds are really starting to fatten up on all of them. Getting some really nice stacking going on but unfortunately there is a few signs of stress from my tank over heating. It's like all my stuff started malfunctioning all at ones. At the end of the season I'm definitely going to need to do some TLC in this room. Humidity has been staying within range the last week. Had a high point one night because I turned off my dehumidifier for a bit and forgot to turn it back on. I turned the temperature up a little bit after I moved the lights up. All the plants are getting roughly 1100-980 par depending on where there located. Got a 100L tank set up now and have increased the amount of ppm and have been swing the Ph up and down a bit trying to keep ot around 5.9 and 6.1 but she's floated outside the range a few times. I find when I have the water pump circulating the water it drops rather fast. But if I use the air pump with stones it jumps a bit but not nearly as fast as it drops with the water pump. Well that's all for now. Happy growing everyone!!!

Week 4 is in the bag and the buds are looking plump. Had to make some adjustments tho. This light pumps out some serious intensity because at 14% I started to get some LED light burn. Started seeing a small amount at the start of flower but nothing crazy. Then in the last week started to see a lot more and also in both plants. Lifted it up another 2 inchs and turned it down to 80%. Hopefully that's enough to stop the burning because both plants are really beautiful and I don't want to lose them. This next week we'll be the last week I'll be running big bud coco and then I'll be switching to Overdrive for a week before I start flushing. I usually only do a week of flushing but want to if the extra week makes a difference. I turned the temperature back down because I noticed a few times the fan was having a hard time getting the temperature back down to 27.5 and my co2 was wasting. Humidity has been staying between 39% and 40% with the dehumidifier running. Well that's all for now so happy growing everyone!!!!

So ive had a really hard time figuring out the proper height and power level for the light. Getting a fair amount of LED light burn on both plants. Got the light up as high as I can and have it turned down to 70%. Leaves don't look like there getting much better, about to turn it down to 50%. With roughly 3 weeks left before harvestbits kind of a downer that I'm having to figure this out. Just look at this as a learning curve. The humidity and temperature in the room has been ok. Had a few some glitches with the humidity dropping below 40% by just a few percentage. I've also lowered the temperature a bit and we'll do so a bit every week tell harvest to see how it effects the plants. Going to start decreasing my nutrients levels this next week before flush. Well that's all for now. Happy growing everyone!!!

Well I had to add a few bamboo sticks to help support the weight. Should have done it a lot sooner but it is what it is. Start flushing tomorrow because the trenchomes are starting to turn milky. Harvest is about 2 weeks out and I've already got the next batch waiting lol. Done trying to figure out the LED light burn and just going to keep on rolling tell harvest. Next grow im going to take whatbi learned here and try to improve on the next grow. Well that's all for now Happy growing everyone!!!

Well the leaves on this plants are all basically dried the F out. And add on the fact there a week into flush and this both plants are looking ready for the chop chop. But they have to wait for the other 3 to finish first. We'll that's all for now so happy growing everyone!!!

Well the trenchomes are only 80/20 milky/amber but I think it's because of the leaf burn the plants got early in growth. I don't think the overly potency is going to be high because of it also. Started off looking g great but ki d of flopped 1/2 way through flower. Next round I'm going to make changes to make sure that doesn't happen again. There both getting g chopped down tonight or tomorrow. Happy growing everyone!!!

Plants dried quick. A little to quick, probably from the fact i had led light burn on some of the leaves and becausei didn't water for 24 hours. But from what I can see on the plants it's going to be a nice weight and a great high.